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Erin Kissane

To me, the critical thing is that if you're an admin with no plan for even temporarily slamming down the gates when a truly gigantic service like Threads rocks up and *inevitably* brings the sophisticated networked abuse it enables into fedi, you're failing in your duty of care.

Anyway! A couple of links that dig into the LoT phenom a bit, tx to folks who replied to my earlier queries:

mediamatters.org/facebook/marc

mediamatters.org/twitter/libs-

wapo.st/46McPVm (gift link)

Media Matters for AmericaIn March, “Libs of TikTok” was the top Twitter user amplifying anti-LGBTQ hate. Now, these attacks are exploding online.Through their coverage and on social media, right-wing media have ramped up attacks accusing LGBTQ people and opponents of Florida’s latest anti-LGBTQ legislation of “grooming” children. In a new study, Media Matters analyzed millions of Facebook and Twitter posts that push related anti-LGBTQ language and found this narrative initially spiked in March with anti-LGBTQ Twitter account “Libs of TikTok” at the helm, and the attacks further ramped up in April as right-wing outlets and figures with large followings further amplified the language.  Key findings include: News and politics Facebook pages posted at least 1,100 times mentioning “groomer,” “grooming,” or other related language between March 1 and April 18. These posts earned over 1.7 million interactions. Right-leaning pages dominated “groomer”-related discussion on Facebook, posting over 78% of related posts — a majority of which were posted in April. There were over 1.4 million tweets and retweets with “groomer”-related language between March 1 and April 18. Related hashtags, including #grooming, #groomer, #groomers, and #savethechildren, were used nearly 30,000 times. Anti-LGBTQ account Libs of TikTok influenced “groomer”-related discussion on Facebook and Twitter. In March, the most-retweeted and most-mentioned Twitter account using "groomer" language was anti-LGBTQ account Libs of TikTok. Its tweets with “groomer”-related language were retweeted over 14,600 times, and the account was mentioned in over 17,800 tweets with similar language.  Libs of TikTok has continued to tweet “groomer”-related language in April; the account has been mentioned in over 21,000 related tweets and has been retweeted over 13,000 times. In April, the most-retweeted and most-mentioned Twitter account so far in related tweets was conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, whose tweets with anti-LGBTQ language were retweeted over 68,000 times, and whose account was mentioned in nearly 79,000 tweets with similar language.  On Twitter, the number of tweets with “groomer”-related language increased by over 60% in April, with over 870,000 tweets and retweets, compared to nearly 545,000 tweets in March.